Vermont Yankee Soil Shipped Out

06/28/10 6:06AM

The Vermont Department of Health says about
310,000 pounds of contaminated soil and other solid waste from the Vermont
Yankee nuclear power plant has been packed into 10 tractor-trailer containers
for shipment to a licensed radioactive waste disposal in Utah.

The Brattleboro Reformer says the health
department posted a notice on its website on Friday.

Tritium has been discovered in groundwater at
Vermont Yankee.

Entergy, which owns and operates the plant,
has said it would need to dispose of 240 cubic feet of earth near the tritium
leak. Vermont Yankee says soil that's accumulated as a result of any
construction work done at the plant over the years apparently is also going to
be shipped out.